CORENZIO, BELISARIO (1558 or Italian painter, a Greek by birth, studied at Venice under Tintoretto, and then settled at Naples. Though careless in composition and a mannerist in style, he possessed an acknowledged fertility of invention and readiness of hand. When Guido Reni came, in 162r, to Naples to paint in the chapel of St. Januarius, Corenzio suborned an assassin to take his life. The hired bravo killed Guido's assistant and effectually frightened Reni, who prudently withdrew to Rome. Corenzio later supplanted Ribera in the good graces of Don Pedro di Toledo, viceroy of Naples, who made him his court painter. His best works were frescoes, one of the principal examples at Naples being the "Miracle of the Loaves and Fishes" for the refectory of San Severino. Corenzio died, it is said, at the age of 85 by a fall from a scaffolding.